CVE-2008-0273

Published Jan 15, 2008 CVSS 2.0 · 4.3 Medium EPSS 2.3% KEV · Not listed
Description
Interpretation conflict in Drupal 4.7.x before 4.7.11 and 5.x before 5.6, when Internet Explorer 6 is used, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via invalid UTF-8 byte sequences, which are not processed as UTF-8 by Drupal's HTML filtering, but are processed as UTF-8 by Internet Explorer, effectively removing characters from the document and defeating the HTML protection mechanism.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-0284 Interpretation conflict in Drupal 4.7.x before 4.7.11 and 5.x before 5.6, when Internet Explorer 6 is used, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via invalid UTF-8 byte sequences, which are not processed as UTF-8 by Drupal's HTML filtering, but are processed as UTF-8 by Internet Explorer, effectively removing characters from the document and defeating the HTML protection mechanism.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 7:39 AM
Reserved
Jan 15, 2008, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jan 15, 2008, 8:00 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:49 PM